1.5.2. Alternative Teaching. 13

1.5.3. Grammar 14

1.5.4. Regular (general) education teacher and special education teacher 14

1.6. Significance of the Study. 15

1.7. Limitation and Delimitations of the Study. 16

1.7.1. Limitation of the Study. 17

1.7.2. Delimitations of the Study. 17

CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE

2.1. Introduction. 19

2.2. Theoretical Foundation and History of Co-Teaching. 19

2.3. Characteristics of Effective Collaboration. 25

2.4. Characteristics of Co-teachers and Co-teaching. 26

2.5. Components of Co-teaching. 30

2.5.1. Interpersonal Communication. 30

2.5.2. Physical Arrangement 32

2.5.3. Familiarity with the Curriculum.. 33

2.5.4. Curriculum Goals and Modifications. 34

2.5.5. Instructional Planning. 35

2.5.6. Instructional Presentation. 37

2.5.7. Classroom Management 38

2.5.8. Assessment 39

2.6. Co-teaching Models. 40

2.6.1. One teach, one observe. 46

2.6.2. Station Teaching. 47

2.6.3. Parallel Teaching. 48

2.6.4. Team Teaching. 49

2.6.5. Alternate Teaching. 49

2.6.6. Supportive Teaching. 50

2.6.7. One Teach, One Drift 50

2. 7. Benefits of Co-Teaching. 53

2.7.1. Benefits of Co-teaching for Teachers. 55

2.7.2. Benefits of Co-teaching for Students. 56

2.8. Student Achievement and Co-teaching. 58

2.9. Successful Conditions for Implementing Co-Teaching. 59

2.10. Co-teaching at secondary level 63

2.11. Organizational Impediments to Co-teaching at Secondary Level 63

2.12. Challenges to Collaboration. 67

2.12.1. Philosophical Differences. 67

2.12.2. Different Levels of Expertise. 68

2.13. The Evolution of Grammar Instruction. 68

2.14. Explicit or Implicit Teaching of Grammar 69

2.15. Qualitative studies on co-teaching. 71

2.16. Quantitative studies on co-teaching. 77

CHAPTER III: Methodology

3.1. Introduction. 81

3.2. Participants. 82

3.3. Instrumentation. 83

3.3.1. Language Proficiency Test 83

3.3.1.2. Listening Section. 84

3.3.1.2. Reading and Writing Section. 84

3.3.2 Grammar Achievement Test as a pre test and a post test 85

3.3.3. InstructionalMaterials. 86

3.3.3.1. Course Book. 86

3.3.3.2. khate Sefid. 87

3.4. Procedure. 87

3.4.1. Homogenizing the Participants. 87

3.4.2. The Treatment 88

3.5. Design of the Study. 92

3.6. Statistical Analysis. 93

CHAPTER IV: Results and Discussion

4.1. Introduction. 95

4.2. Descriptive Statistics for the Piloting KET Proficiency Test 96

4.3. Descriptive Statistics of the KET Main Administration for Homogenization. 97

4.4. Descriptive Statistics of the grammar Pre-test 100

4.5. The Results of Testing the Null Hypothesis. 106

4.6. Discussion. 107

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND PEDAGOGICAL MPLICATIONS

5.1. Introduction. 110

5.2. Summary of the Findings. 110

5.3. Conclusion. 111

5.4. Theoretical Implications. 112

5.5. Practical Implications. 113

5.6. Suggestions for Further Research. 114

References. 115

APPENDICES

Appendix A.. 129

Appendix B.. 144

Appendix C.. 151

LIST OFTABLES

 

Table 4.1: Descriptive Statistics for KET Proficiency Test piloting. 96

Table 4.2 Descriptive Statistics for KET Proficiency Test 97

Table 4.3: Reliability of the KET Proficiency Test Piloting. 97

Table 4.4: Descriptive Statistics for KET Main Administration for Homogenization. 98

Table 4.5: The Results of Normality Check of the Distribution of scores on KET. 98

Table 4.6: Independent Sample T-test for Control and Experimental Groups’ KET scores. 100

Table 4.7: Descriptive Statistics for the Results of the Pre-test 101

Table 4.8: Results of Normality of Distribution of Scores for Grammar Pre-test 102

Table 4.9: Independent Samples T- Test for Pre-test 103

Table 4.10: descriptive statistics for the results of the post-test 105

Table 4.11: Results of Normality of Distribution of Scores for Grammar Post-test 105

Table 4.12: Independent Samples Test for Post-test 106

 

LIST OF FIGURES

 

Figure 4.1: The Histogram of Scores of KET Main Administration. 99

Figure 4.2: Histogram of the Scores Obtained on the Grammar Pre-test of the Control Group 101

Figure 4.3: Histogram of the Scores Obtained on the Grammar Pre-test of the Experimental Group 102

Figure 4.4: Histogram of the Scores Obtained on the Grammar Post- test of the Control Group 104

Figure 4.5: Histogram of the Scores Obtained on the Grammar Post- test of the Experimental Group 104

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER I

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.1. Introduction